The 2nd Transmediale Prize was awarded to UBERMORGEN.COM (at), Paolo Cirio (it) and Alessandro Ludovico (it) for their project.
Amazon Noir is a poetic media statement many entangled routes lead to and out of.It links to the debate around intellectual property and anti-copyright campaigns and platforms pursuing copyright infringement: the Amazon Noir crew stole copyrighted books from Amazon.com by hacking the see insideâ feature.
Its humour and conspiracy verging on sarcasm spread further, rendering the project somewhat of a prank, when one wonders if the technology was ever truly sold and what indeed happened behind the scenes.